Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Ferraris <aferra...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, aferra...@debian.org, debian-on-mobile-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net
* Package name : rust-gtk-0.18 Version : 0.18.1 * URL : https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs * License : MIT Programming Lang: Rust Description : Rust bindings for GTK+ 3.0 This is a re-introduction of rust-gtk and its dependencies into Debian. Those packages were removed as they were unmaintained and required an extensive amount of work to keep up with the underlying dependencies, such as rust-glib. However, as they are only language bindings to an underlying C library (which is still maintained), the lack of upstream attention doesn't cause any significant issue. The plan is therefore to import the latest Debian packages from the 0.18 branch and re-upload those with the "-0.18" suffix, so they don't clash with current, up-to-date versions (especially for rust-glib and its own dependencies). rust-gtk is still needed by squeekboard, an important software for mobile users, which can no longer migrate to testing due to this removal (#1064373). Moreover, it is a dependency to phrog (ITP #1082766) and its main dependency, libphosh (ITP #1082767), so vendoring rust-gtk (along with its own dependencies) is not an option. This package will be maintained within the DebianOnMobile team in order to avoid distracting the Rust team.
